2019 Formula 1 season, Round 6
Monaco Grand Prix
Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
Sunday 26 May 2019
Charles Leclerc will be the home-town favourite when the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix is held as part of the Formula 1 season on Sunday 26 May.
The young Monegasque driver has had an up and down season with Ferrari thus far, but will hope that the street circuit provides him with the inspiration and opportunity to pick up a first career win.
Leclerc has often looked to have superior pace compared to his vastly more experienced teammate Sebastian Vettel, but the German has had the better race craft thus far and is therefore higher up on the Drivers’ Championship standings.
Vettel and Leclerc came him in fourth and fifth place at the Spanish GP earlier this month, leaving the younger man seven points adrift of his stable mate.
While Ferrari have been unable to challenge Mercedes’ dominance, they will also be concerned that Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has regularly got the drop on them this season and is the ‘best of the rest’ in drivers’ terms behind the ‘Silver Arrows’ duo of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
In addition, the Monaco circuit is more likely to suit the Red Bull than the Ferrari, meaning Leclerc and Vettel will have their hands full in trying to compete with Verstappen, let alone chasing down Mercedes.
2019 F1 season – Drivers’ Championship, top three
1 – Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – 112 points
2 – Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) – 105 points
3 – Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – 66 points
2019 F1 season – Constructors’ Championship, top three
1 – Mercedes – 217 points
2 – Ferrari – 121
3 – Red Bull Racing-Honda – 87
Monaco Grand Prix details
First held: 1929
Number of times held: 76
Most wins (driver): Ayrton Senna, 6
Most wins (constructor): McLaren, 15
Circuit length: 3.337km
Race length: 260.286km
Number of laps: 78
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Last five Monaco Grand Prix winners
2018 – Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull)
2017 – Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari)
2016 – Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
2015 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
2014 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
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